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 The Fallen Men of South Warwickshire - World War One


Private 14252 Charles Edmund HYATT - 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards

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Killed in Action on Tuesday 20th June 1916 aged 20

grave for CE Hyatt

Military History
     
Theatre of War Medals Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders 1914-15 Star, British War & Victory Medals Essex Farm Cemetery, Ypres
     
Arrived in Theatre Medal Citation (if app) SWFHS Area Memorials
10 Aug 1915 in France ~ Atherstone on Stour
     
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed Date and Place Enlisted Other War Memorials
Local Actions on the Ypres Salient December 1914 in Stratford on Avon  
     
Place of Death Previous Regiments or Units  
     
     

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

Charles is listed as being killed in action on 20 Jun 1916. The war diary shows that his Battalion were in the front lines at near the Yser Canal in Ypres. The war diary for the period 17th to 21st June 1916 is transcribed below along with a newspaper obituary.

War Diary

17th - 20th June: Canal Bank. Intermittent hostile shelling each day.

20th June: Relieved 2 CG [2nd Bn Coldstream Guards] in front line at night. Took over left sub-sector of Brigade Section, i.e. left of British Line. Description: Bad line, parapets too low. Communication non exsistent by day. 2 Coys in Front Line, 2 Coys in Support. 2nd Grenadier Guards on our right. French troops on our left supported by Belgian Artillery. Quiet night. Enemy snipers active from left flank.

21st to 23rd June: In trenches. Little work possible by day in front trenches. Very heavy work increasingly by night on parapets, drainage and communications. END

Newspaper Obituary

Stratford on Avon Herald - July 14th 1916

MEMORIAL SERVICE AT ATHERSTONE - The death of Private Charles Edmund Hyatt of the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards is reported, and many will regret the loss of this finely-built soldier, who was only twenty years of age and stood six feet tall. His mother and father live at Middle Barn, Ailston, and Hyatt joined the army twelve months ago last Christmas, going to France in August last year and taking part in the Battle of Loos and other engagements. The young man was leaving the trenches after four days there when a machine gun swept the trench and he was killed instantaneously.

Before joining the colours Hyatt was employed as under-gamekeeper to Squire West [of Alscot House, Atherstone on Stour] and he was very popular among a wide circle of aquaintances. On Sunday morning a memorial service was conducted at Atherstone on Stour by the Rev T.A. Lewis, which was attended by members of the family and numerous friends. Hyatt's brother served in the army but was discharged due to ill health.
 Personal & Family History

 

Birth Date/Place Baptism Date/Place
Oct Qtr 1895 at Moreton in the Marsh 5 Jan 1896 at Aston Magna, Worcs
   
Parents Names Abode
William and May Hyatt Middle Barn, Ailston, Stratford on Avon
   
Schools Colleges
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Address History Employment History
1896 - Dorn, Worcs 1911 - Waggoner on Farm
1901 - Cottage, Whitchurch, Warks 1914 - Under Gamekeeper at Alscot Park, Atherstone on Stour
1911 - 1 Middle Barn Cottages, Atherstone on Stour  
1916 - 1 Middle Barn Cottages, Atherstone on Stour  
 

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